From 20 August to 20 September.
I believed that the inheritance we were leaving behind would lead to more peace and prosperity. I was wrong.
And at my age, I already find it impossible to help reverse the situation in the battlefields. I am left with sorrow, cloaked in impotence, to express, in times of cruelty and horror, filled with doubts and questions - how far does our conscience go in the face of violence in war?
To counteract such irrationality, to help shed a little light in the darkness, I limit myself to giving shape to what I see happening by using my plastic language as a possible testimony.
I limit myself to pace with what I feel, think and to act. The result is what can be seen in this exhibition enlivened by the urgency of an invitation, in the disorder of these days.
It is the horrible reality of war. The absolute absurdity of human irrationality. A pathetic parade with the semblance of death.
And I wonder - in this reality that virtually crushes us, how close is it to the real suffering of those who survive there?
It is also to withstand anguish, and to take it into one's own hands, in an attempt to act and to find a way towards human logic with God, so that happiness or it's glimpse may redeem us from death.
And in this context, what is our mission? In the face of the immediate, sombre and timeless imminence of death, we seek catharsis so that the dream may return with the shades of love. And other spaces and times of redemption are sought. Because we believed that what is happening would happen only once, as an experience of atonement for the human soul.
War - a radical evil of self-destruction of no value, of false domination of man by man, yet condemned, as a whole, to the fate of death at the expense of the supreme value of life, reducing our existence to a future without destiny - has brutally imposed itself, and so, in this exhibition, I want to retell what happened. To leave a trace, presenting, without fear or reproach, the link that enmeshes the mind and annihilates our way of living.
And so, stripped, I pursue the intention that peace and hope may return from this thick darkness.
-HELDER DE CARVALHO, 2022
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